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Eina! Bakkies sports nasty cut

Cape Town - Springbok and Toulon lock Bakkies Botha has taken to Twitter to show off his nasty head wound.

Botha suffered the injury in Toulon's 14-9 Heineken Cup victory over Exeter on Saturday.

Botha tweeted post-match: 14 steke in gister se rugby wedstryd n tok in die gesig maar wat dit is deel van die pret. Blessings.

Translated: 14 stitches after Saturday's match. A boot to the face but all part of the fun. Blessings.

No word on what happened to the perpetrator...


Bakkies Botha (Twitter)
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